Word: heros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Engineer Steven Whipple, hailed as a hero of the rescue, said he was checking the fallen double-deck free-way for stability on Saturday when he spotted the back of Helm's head with his flashlight, and then saw a hand wave...
Sancton should know. A native of New Orleans, he grew up in and around the clubs of America's jazz capital, sitting in on gigs with his clarinet from the time he was a teenager. Allen's musical hero, clarinetist George Lewis, was one of Sancton's own mentors, and in 1969 Sancton played at Lewis' funeral. While an undergraduate at Harvard University in the late 1960s, Sancton formed the Black Eagle Jazz Band. When he went on to Oxford for graduate work, he ^ toured briefly with several European jazz groups before putting the horn aside to complete his doctorate...
Thomas McGuane has lost his way since the days of The Bushwhacked Piano and does not find it in his new novel, whose aimlessness raises thoughts of old ranch buildings fallen to ruin. His hero, Joe Starling, is a brilliant painter who no longer paints (hello there, Papa H.). Becalmed, then stirred by the faintest of internal winds, he returns from the staleness of the East Coast to Montana, where he has inherited a cattle spread. Here the author novelizes industriously, with small effect. Events occur; characters are brought to life, then enter, speak and exit; but Joe remains...
Danny Deck, the hero of McMurtry's earlier novel All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, has earned more than $300 million as the writer-producer of a TV sitcom called Al and Sal. Retired at age 51 in the mansion he has built on an isolated hill in Texas, he dreams of writing a novel and keeps in touch by telephone with a network of glamorous actresses scattered about the globe. One morning he receives a call and hears an unfamiliar female voice: "Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy...
Marcos could easily have been a hero. When he was first elected President of the Philippines, in November 1965, he had history within his grasp. His uncommon combination of political shrewdness and ironfisted determination gave a strong measure of national identity to the fractious Southeast Asian archipelago. Encountering minimal opposition when he took on dictatorial powers in 1972, Marcos thoroughly reordered Philippine economic and political life, impressing both his people and his key ally, the U.S., with his irreplaceability in one of the most strategic corridors of the world...